Spam Removal Messages

An autoresponder message from OUTBLAZE.COM

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This is an autoresponder. Please do not reply to this email.
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Hello

Thank you for contacting the Outblaze.Com security and abuse desk.

We have received your query and will take action on it according to our acceptable use policy.

If you are writing in to report a spam from one of our users:

For abuse related issues, please send correspondence to abuse@outblaze.com

Please note that owing to the large volume of mail arriving at this desk, we may not be able to actually respond to your email or disclose action taken against the spammer. However, please be assured that we have a zero tolerance anti-spam policy, and take a very dim view of spam and net abuse involving an outblaze.com account.

Further information about our antispam policy can be found at http://www.outblaze.com/antispam/index.html

If you are writing in to find why your mail has been blocked, please see http://spamblock.outblaze.com/spamchk.html for an explanation.

Please also see our mass mailing policy at http://spamblock.outblaze.com/massmail.html if applicable.

Thanks
Outblaze Postmaster (postmaster@outblaze.com)

Reply from Yahoo

Hello,

Thank you for reporting this potential abuse of the Yahoo! Mail system. As we understand it, you received unwanted email from an @yahoo.com address. Sending unsolicited commercial email messages violates the Yahoo! Mail Terms of Service (TOS). We have taken a number of measures to discourage "junk mailers" and spammers (e.g., limiting the number of messages which can be sent from a single account in one day).

Please forward the messages that you have received from Yahoo! Mail addresses, including full headers, to:

abuse@yahoo.com

so that we may investigate the matter. Again, thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Regards,

Rex

Yahoo! Customer Care

For assistance with all Yahoo! services please visit:

http://help.yahoo.com/

Another message from Yahoo

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.

We understand your frustration in receiving unsolicited email. While we investigate all reported violations against the Yahoo! Terms of Service (TOS), in this particular case the message you received was not sent through the Yahoo! Mail system.

Yahoo! has no control over activities outside its service, and therefore we cannot take action. You may try contacting the sender's email provider, by identifying the sender's domain and contacting the administrator of that domain. The sender's provider should be in a better position to take appropriate action against the sender's account.

The email message itself does contain some information relating to the sender's identity. Yahoo! includes the originating Internet Protocol (IP) address in the full Internet headers of all messages sent through Yahoo! Mail, so that we will have information regarding the origin of messages sent through our system. The originating IP address should be located in the very last "Received" line of the full Internet headers and corresponds to the sender's Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Please see the following URL for more assistance:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/spam-05.html

Once you have identified the IP address, you can conduct an IP lookup to determine which ISP provides this person with Internet access. One such lookup tool you may want to try is:

http://www.arin.net/whois/

You can then attempt to contact that ISP to report any abuse activities occurring within their service.

Spammers use their own methods of sending unsolicited email through their own computers, programs, Internet sites, forgery, etc. The following steps may help you understand what preventative measures can be taken to avoid being discovered and added to junk email lists.

* Never respond to unsolicited email/spam. To the individuals who send spam, one "hit" among thousands of mailings is enough to justify the practice.

* Never respond to the spam email's instructions to reply with the word "remove". This is just a ploy to get you to react to the email, and alerts the sender that a human is at your email address, which greatly increases its value. If you reply, your address may be placed on more lists, resulting in more spam. Please know that Yahoo! offers several tools to help you keep spam out of your Inbox:

1. "Spam" and "Not Spam" buttons -- The most effective way to prevent spam from entering your Inbox is by using the "Spam" button in your Inbox or the "Not Spam" button in your Bulk Mail folder. If a spam message is delivered to your Inbox - click "Spam." If a non-spam message is delivered to your Bulk Mail folder - click "Not spam."

By sending examples of spam to Yahoo! for review, it will increase the effectiveness of Spamguard, Yahoo! Mail's filtering system. Yahoo! will use the messages you send to constantly improve the Spamguard technology and help ensure that unwanted messages are delivered to your Bulk Mail Folder rather than your Inbox.

2. Filters -- Yahoo! Mail offers you the ability to create filters for your account. You create filters to deliver emails to a special folder. To learn more, please visit:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/manage/manage-10.html

3. Block an address -- Use this feature to block email addresses you do not want to receive email from. Learn more at:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/read/read-22.html

* Never sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from spam lists. Although some of these sites may be legitimate, more often than not, they are address collectors. The legitimate sites are ignored (or exploited) by the spammers; the address collection sites are owned by them. In both cases, your address is recorded and valued more highly because you have just identified it as being read by a human.

* Avoid displaying your email address(es) in public places. This makes it harder for spammers to run programs or bots to gather email addresses.

* If you use a service that uses an online directory of their users, you may want to "opt-out" of this directory. Spammers search the directory for new listings.

Yahoo! takes your privacy seriously. Yahoo! does not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies, except to provide products or services you have requested, when we have your permission, or under other limited circumstances. For example, we provide personal information to partners who work on behalf of or with Yahoo! under confidentiality agreements. We may also provide personal information when responding to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

If we believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, emergency situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Yahoo!'s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law, personal information may be shared.

For further information, please review our full Privacy Policy at:

http://privacy.yahoo.com/

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

Ronald

Yahoo! Customer Care
http://www.yahoo.com/

Reply from TELECOM ITALIA FRANCE

Dear Sir, Madam,

Your message has been received by our services. Let us thank you. We are now taking all the necessary measures in order to stop the wrongful activity. We also thank you for your comprehension.

We remain entirely at your disposal should you need any further information.

Faithfully,
Skander A.
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Aide en ligne : http://support.tiscali.fr/index.asp

--Original Message--
From: donm@mail.com
Date: 05/09/05
To: abuse@tiscali.fr
Subject: Spam Removal[#4812710]

To whom it may concern,

I use a variety of email addresses for the purpose of detecting spam. The email message that prompted this complaint is definitely SPAM!

Please take steps to have this spammer stopped.

Also please take steps to have my email address: "info@donmalcolm.com" removed from this and any other lists that may exist.

If you are not in a position to take action, please pass this on to someone who can.

The spammer claims: "You are receiving this email as a reward for signing up to our Lifetime Health newsletter." This claim is false. I did not use this or for that matter, any other email address at this domain to sign up for a Health newsletter!

The spammer further claims: "This email is a one-time offer - you will not be contacted again by us in the future." Again a false claim. My email address "info@donmalcolm.com" seems to have gotten onto some list that is being distributed. I want it off that list or lists!

Furthermore for someone to have in their possession an email list, and then to claim to only use it once, is an insult to anyone with any intelligence!

For the record, I have never sent any email using the address: "info@donmalcolm.com", and I have never entered that address into any form, or used it in any manner, with one exception. It did at one time appear on a web page on my web site. That is the only place it was used, so that must be where the spammers have taken it. I ask: Can't a guy put an email address on his web site without getting spammed?

Thank you for your attention to this matter,
Don Malcolm

Example of bounce to my autoresponder

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

        Moshe@wyg.com

Reporting-MTA: dns;teesside01.teesside.wyg.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.wyg.com
Arrival-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:52:34 +0100

Final-Recipient: rfc822;Moshe@wyg.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1

Do not send emails to this account.

This email account does not receive incoming emails.

It is only used for outgoing mail.

All incoming email is not delivered.

Due to excessive spam emails, all incoming email is automatically deleted.

If you have genuine correspondence, and you don't have my new email 
address, then you will need to contact me via some other means. Sorry 
Guys.

Why don't I leave a forwarding address here? Well, I don't want those 
spammers to know the new address! Now do I?

Another message to abuse@outblaze.com

Dear Sir/Madam,

This spammer appears to have an account at outblaze.com, or is directly using your services.

Please have this spammer stopped.

I am aware that email list brokers, supply a black list of domains and email addresses that are not to be contacted under any circumstances (along with supply of the email contact lists). Since I have done, and will do again, report spam to network, ISP, and other authorities, when you consider the impact this has on your clientèle, I am sure you will agree that it will be good for your business at outblaze.com, to have my domains, and email addresses blacklisted by spammers. After all, my objective is to stop spam, being sent to me or my associates.

Please distribute throughout your customer base, and to any other appropriate contacts that you may know of, the following email addresses and domains:
donm@post.com
donm@mail.com
donmalcolm.com

Please instruct them that they are not to contact these email addresses, and domains under any circumstances.

Thank you for you attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
Don Malcolm